#rain

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#discipline #fields #hard #intense #living

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build. ↗

— James Wolcott

#aware #big #brain #build #cite

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#being #being different #different #going #grain

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#brainstorm #doing #excited #feel #friends

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ↗

— John Wooden

#against #art #be true #bible #blessings

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#known #most #our #outside #scholars

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brain #buried #buzzing #diving #humming

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#brains #clothes #hearts #liking #make

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules? ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #guy #i #kid #schedules